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Nantucket

island of Massachusetts, United States

6 dated entries naming Nantucket, drawn from 6 separate years between 1676 CE and 1999 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1676November 16 – A prison is founded on Nantucket Island, in the English colony of Massachusetts.source

19th century

  • 1820November 20 – After the sinking of the American whaleship Essex of Nantucket, by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats. They eventually resort, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive.source
  • 1841August 11 – Frederick Douglass speaks in front of the Anti-Slavery Convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts.source

20th century

  • 1909January 24 – The White Star Line RMS Republic sinks the day after a collision with SS Florida off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued.source
  • 1956July 25 – The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog 72 km south of Nantucket island, killing 51.source
  • 1999October 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts killing all 217 on board.source

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